Category: Life
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Retrospective 2024-23
This is a retrospective of week 23, 2024 (2024-06-03–2024-06-09). This is a reminder to myself that I still haven’t finished my review of Robert Rosen’s book Anticipatory Systems which I started writing week 10. The reason I mention this is that I listened to Krista Tippett’s conversation with Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton this…
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Christopher Alexander on Observation
Christopher Alexander has the following to say about the new method of observation which he proposes in The Nature of Order, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life (italics in the original text): [The method of observation] goes directly to the intuitions which are widely shared and raises them to a formal level as techniques of…
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Christopher Alexander on Descartes
Christopher Alexander has the following to say about René Descartes in The Nature of Order, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life (italics in the original text): …Descartes not only invented the method of observation which in effect we have continued to use unchanged for several hundred years, but that in addition he saw clearly what…
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Margaret Wheatley’s Eight Principles
I found the following eight principles in Biology Revisioned by Willis Harman and Elisabet Sahtouris. These principles are from A Simpler Way by Margaret Wheatley. Notes:1. Willis Harman & Elisabet Sahtouris, Biology Revisioned, pp. 256–58.
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Retrospective 2024-18
This is a retrospective of week 18, 2024 (2024-04-29–2024-05-05). This week I’ve continued looking into the work of Forrest Landry. Here and here are my previous retrospectives on Landry’s work. Jim Rutt talks with Landry about his Small Group Method and the difficulties in scaling it up beyond 16 people in this podcast. Forrest Landry’s…
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Retrospective 2024-02
This is a retrospective of week 2 2024 (2024-01-08–2024-01-14). Here is the retrospective of the previous week. I’m currently reading the following books: I’ve started reading: Notes:1. See Attention as a moral Act: Iain McGilchrist and Jonathan Rowson in Conversation, YouTube, https://youtu.be/YHUGuUhB1c4. Accessed: 2024-01-14. Published: 2023-03-06.2. David Ellerman makes principled arguments against the rental of…
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Retrospective 2024-01
This is a retrospective of the first week 2024 (2024-01-01–2024-01-07). I will write in both English and Swedish because I write for myself. Newborn thoughts are easier to express in my native language (Swedish). However, most of what I read is in English and then I will stick to English. For the most part, I…
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Organisms must be free to choose
Why must organisms be free to choose? It’s because organisms must be free to act according to their own beinghood. It’s a foundational principle, because the cosmos itself is a free process of true and original creation. Compelled behavior is not creative. Organisms must be able to respond to the world. Skye Hirst emphasizes that:…
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Stephen Harrod Buhner on deeper attunement
The following is from Michael Barticel’s interview with Stephen Harrod Buhner. Buhner talks about developing a deeper attunement with ourselves and the world. He says (paraphrasing): My work is the movement from dissociated mentation to engaged sensory experience, in particular the response of the heart to what’s presented to the senses.3 Descartes said, “Cogito, ergo…